Merriment 18 | Video

[shadowcourage]

Hey. I'm Shadow and new on blue team. So, from my experience, its better that I do stuff regularly. Keep engaged and all that.

So I'm gonna offer a few services.

One, food. It sounds like yer not strapped for getting enough, but there are limitations. I have an ability to make food, so I figure I'll hit up the kitchen everyday and add to the stores a bit. I can't do a ton, but like feed a few extra people's worth a day should be fine. As long as I'm not wiped out for some reason. Probably won't happen after missions. I'll do this shortly before the rainbow colors disappear.

I can also take special meal requests, or help with special diets that are hard to get what ya need. If those apply, find me in the kitchen, or the training gym before hand. I'll be there regularly. If there's no requests, I'll just add what looks good. Probably rarer items or perishables when its close to stock up time. I reserves the right to reject special requests if yer rude.

Two, I was on Diagad before arriving. And its with great debate I offer this, so I don't want to hear a lecture. I know dark magic. Which is not inherently evil, just a tool, just one that makes it real easy to do evil things. And I do know a spell for mind control. No, I'm not explaining the 'tragic backstory'. [Complete with air quotes] For why I know it. But if ya want to learn how to resist mind control, I can help test ya. Ya can bring a person to monitor me, or another mind reader, or check with my brother whose been here weeks for my character. I'm offering a service, I'm not forcing ya to take it, its up to ya to do what makes ya feel safe doing it.

Three, I guess I can also help people with dark magic. No, I'm not teaching the mind control thing.

Four, I know shadow magic. Yes, that's different from dark magic. This take special kind of affinity to go, so not everyone can learn this, but if ya want to try learning, I can see what I can do.

I'm also gonna hit up the fight club training listing, but I figure I'd throw out the weirder stuff now.

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[shadowcourage]

[Shadow moves closer, his eyes going a solid white, his foot stepping on Curufin's shadow as he watches the illusion come to life.]

[But he's looking deeper then that. He doesn't have a true magical sense, like ESP, but instead he looks at the world in a way others simply don't. He is a literal shadow, mixed with dark magic and the darkest part of the heart of his owner. And that is what he looks for. He looks for darkness and shadow, how it moves to create something in the world, how it might connect to the heart of its owner as he connects with Curufin's own shadow.]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin is aware that Shadow Link can see the tree. But when he steps on Curufin's shadow and begins to look for darkness, Curufin is aware of that as well. He shivers slightly. His soul still contains much darkness, since in his own world he committed many crimes against his own people, and in fact he died in battle while committing the Second Kinslaying in Elvish history. Since then, he has striven to atone for all the evil, but his soul still looks like a drifting raincloud when the sun begins to emerge -- dark in the center although with silvery edges. Shadow Link may not have ESP, but he may be aware that the darkness in Curufin did move to create something in the world of Arda. But now the light in him strives to create something positive in the world of the train and its missions. ]

Can you. . . can you see the tree?

[shadowcourage]

I can see the tree.

Got a quite of lot going on with the darkness, huh? Usually when it gets to this level, its the sort to leave marks on history.

[so_dark_a_road]

Good. I'll devise some other visions, if you want me to?

And as for the darkness, yes, I have quite a bit of that in my soul. And I did leave some marks on history, more than once. Even though others were with me and were partly or largely responsible, I take full responsibility for my part in those dark events.

[shadowcourage]

That's good. Denial and darkness hasn't historically gone well.

...how much do ya fear it?

[so_dark_a_road]

[ He nods in emphatic agreement. ] That's for certain! Historically and personally. I didn't even begin to understand the darkness until I took responsibility for my deeds.

How much do I fear the darkness? I don't fear it anymore, except on rare occasions. I have learned to accept it as a part of myself, and strangely, that makes a big difference. It makes it far easier to manifest the light.

[shadowcourage]

Excellent. That's the first and most important step. Ya can't hope to control part of yerself if ya aren't willing to accept it, ya know?

And interact with light. The next part hard part is getting how interconnected darkness and light really is.

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Another emphatic nod. ] That's utterly true.

And what you say about the interconnectedness of light and darkness resonates with me.

Did you find out all of this from experience?